300+ Global Resources Featured at NYIGF
White Plains, NY – More than 300 international companies –representing six continents and 47 countries – will participate in the winter 2011 edition of the New York International Gift Fair® (NYIGF®), offering a wide range of global resources across NYIGF’s ten divisions.
Some 15 international government-sponsored contingents will participate in the Fair, with eight of them – from Africa, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico and Russia – located in NYIGF’s General Gift division. Additional government-sponsored groups – from England, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico and Peru – are positioned in NYIGF’s Handmade®, Accent on Design® and Tabletop & Housewares divisions.
“Not only are global resources readily accessible throughout the Fair, they are conveniently categorized for buyers in themed product divisions,” said Dorothy Belshaw, NYIGF director and GLM senior vice president. “No other U.S. market provides such an extensive base of international gift, home and lifestyle suppliers.”
Africa Now!, Ateliers d’Art de France, British Jewellery and Giftware Exports, Israel Export Institute, JETRO New York (Japan), Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH (Germany), PROMEXICO and the Russian pavilion are located within NYIGF’s General Gift division. The Italian Trade Commission is represented in Tabletop & Housewares.
The American Chamber of Commerce from Peru, Egyptian Exporters Association (Expolink), and Israel Export Institute will be featured in Handmade® Global Design : and the British Crafts Council and Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH ( Germany) will be located in Handmade® Designer Maker.
The Accent on Design® division has accepted six companies from the British Design Group and four companies from Ateliers d’Art de France into its juried collection of design-led resources.
Companies from around the world also exhibit independently in the Fair, with the following countries represented: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom (England and Scotland) and Uzbekistan.
NYIGF runs Saturday, January 29, through Thursday, February 3, 2011, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94. NYIGF is the nation’s premier gift, home and lifestyle marketplace, with 2,800 exhibiting companies featuring an extraordinary breadth and depth of design-driven home fashion products and complementary giftware. Some 35,000 attendees from all 50 states and more than 85 countries worldwide are expected. Information and registration is available online at www.nyigf.com.
